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(ModeL') G. E. SPARE. Carriage-Seat Iron for Shifting-Rail.

No. 228,483. Patented June 8,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE...

GEORGE E. SPARE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO M. SEWARD & SON,OF SAME PLACE.

CARRIAGE-SEAT IRON FOR SHIFTING-RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,483, dated June 8,1880.

Application filed March 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEO. E. SPARE, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improve ment inCarriage Seat Irons for Shifting-Rails; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescrip tion of the same, and which said drawings constitute part ofthis specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1., perspective view of the iron complete for market 5 Fig.2,.perspective view on a reduced scale, showing its application.

This invention relates to the part of carriages commonly called theshifting-rail.- that is, the device which is attached to the seat tosecure the top to the seat, but yet so that the top may be readilyremoved when occasion requires. The rail is an iron bar or guard aroundthe upper edge of the seat. From this bar branches extend inward anddownward upon the inside of the seat back and ends as a means forsecuring the rail to the seat. To these branches the top is secured, asbefore mentioned.

Heretofore the lazy-back has been attached to the top and necessarilyremoved with it.

The object of this invention is to make the lazy-back a permanent partof the seat-rail, and to construct the seat-iron as an article ofmanufacture provided with partly-formed seat rails, and also a part ofthe lazy-back supports, whereby the most difficult part of theseatforgings are furnished completely and perfectly shaped; and itconsists in the seat-ironof the shape as hereinafter described.

A is the body of the seat-iron, which is secured upon the inside of theseat back or end, as the case may be, its upper end bent outward to formthe arm B, and so as to lie in a horizontal plane when secured to theseat, the angle being determined by the pitch or flare of (ModeL) theback or ends. At the outer end of the arm B a projection, C, is made tothe right or left, or both, at right angles to and in same horizontalplane with the arm B, and shaped to correspond to the requiredseat-rail-generally round, as shown.

Vertically through the arm B is a hole, D, through which the belt orstud on the top is passed, and so that the top will rest on the arm B,secured by a nut on the stud or bolt below in the usual manner.

E is a vertical post attached to or made a part of the arm B, and whichis to be extended to complete the lazy-back irons, as seen in Fig. 2.

The carriage smith receiving these irons has only to weld a rodcorresponding to the projection C to said projections, and so as toconnect one seat-iron with the next, as indicated in Fig. 2, and also toweld extensions -for the support of the lazy-back, as seen in Fig. 2.

The hole D may be made in the arm by the manufacturer of the iron, ormay be made by the carriage-smith who uses it.

In some cases one of the projections C may be omitted, as where the railis not to be continued around the back .of the seat. In that case theirons are made one right-hand, another left-hand, in the same set; butin all cases the vertical post E is a part of the article.

I claim- As an article of manufacture, the herein-describedcarriage-seat iron, consisting of the body A, bent to form the arm B,and with a projection or projections, C, to form part of the seat-rail,and with the lazy-back post E, substantially as described.

GEO. E. SPARE.

Witnesses:

J 0s. 0. EARLE, JOHN E. EARLE.

